yaesumofo
Flashlight Enthusiast
So a while back while driving past an army navy store I decided to pop in there and have a quick look around. You never know what will turn up.
On this occasion I happened to find a PAIR of brand new in the box 3P's priced at $30 each. One was/is black one blue. Both perfect.
OK so I have mentioned these in the past and people have offered to buy them from me and or trade them off of me and I have always said no. I like 'em.
Problem is that they aren't all that useful as incandescent flashlights to me, except to play Surefire Lego with and I don't do that very often with these anyway. So they sat in the box for a long time.
Recently I started hearing about drop in LED replacements for the 6P or M60 sized globes. I saw a couple of cheap crap devices from some High volume Asian sellers. I stayed
away. Then I found the Malkoff m60 drop in. Cool I ordered one for one of my 6P's and I was sold. Great thing!
So I got to thinking I sure would like to have something like the Malkoff drop in that would work at the single cell level that would work in my 3P's. Cool idea. (If you have a 3P).
I mentioned this to Gene. He must have files this away. Deep. We were talking about a couple of other things and it came up again. Anyway to make a long story short I got a call from Gene right before the Shot show asking if I was going to attend. Unfortunately I was not able to make it. Gene told me he had something for me. It was a drop in for my 3P!!
WOW!!
Too bad I had to wait for the SS to be over before I could get my grubby hands on it. Gene sent it to me. Here is the boring stuff. It looks exactly like the other drop in except that
on the brass body it says 3P 1-3.6V
The drive level 600ma at 3v and 1000ma at 3.6v.
I installed the M60 3P 1-3.6V unit into my little black 3P.
I immediately pulled out my 6P with it's drop in and compared them. Guess what? The beams are pretty much identical.
I love it. I am getting the same light out of a 3 P as I would a 6P. There is no doubt there will be a runtime price to pay. Oh well. I love the size of the 3P and now that it has a top
of the line regulated circuit driving a Q5 Cree I couldn't be any happier.
I am pretty fussy about this sort of thing. There was no compromise in making my little 3P drop in. the beam is just as good as the drop in units Gene makes for the 6P.
OK that's it.
I do not know if Gene plans on making these as a regular part or not. He did not tell me to keep it quite so I assume he will not mind this post.
Chalk up another in the Win for Malkoff devices.
BTW I have a feeling that you want images.
To be frank I am not too interested in white wall beam shots especially if they will look the same as many done already. So if you desire a beam shot I suggest that you go look in the sticky thread for a link to a Malkoff M60 Drop in beam shot. The beam produced by the 3P version is no different.
OK that's it.
Pretty cool eh?
Yaesumofo
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